There was a brilliant Alternate Character Interpretation of Lovecraft on Twitter: Drunk Lovecraft. Yes, you read that right—and it's amazing. "Bitter, divorced, re-animated author of weird fiction. Has developed a bit of a drinking problem since returning from the grave."

Now defunct, but it contained gems like...

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the ability of the human mind to obliterate all its contents with sweet, sweet gin."

"When confronted by the fungi from Yuggoth, try and lick one. They'll still take your brain, but you'll be high as a motherfucker."

"Today a cocker spaniel humped my leg, and I immediately thought of August Derleth."

"If you think God moves in mysterious ways, you've never seen Yog-Sothoth take the dance floor."

There was something hideous, blasphemous, and abnormal about it [a voice], and but for a cry from his recovering wife which cleared his mind by arousing his protective instincts it is not likely that Theodore Howland Ward could have maintained for nearly a year his old boast that he had never fainted.

Similarly, the last line of "The Statement of Randolph Carter" walks a thin line between comedy and Nightmare Fuel:

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